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Homelessness Interventions: Costs versus Benefits
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2018
What Homelessness Interventions Demonstrate Benefits that Outweigh the Costs?
Aging in Place With Permanent Supportive Housing
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2018
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is effective at ending chronic homelessness. PSH should also be designed to accommodate and address accelerated aging experienced by homeless adults in order to help them age in place once they are housed.
Urban Income Inequality and the Great Recession in Sunbelt Form: Disentangling Individual and Neighborhood- Level Change in Los Angeles
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
Year: 2017
New social transformations within and beyond the cities of classic urban studies challenge prevailing accounts of spatial inequality. This paper pivots from the Rust Belt to the Sunbelt accordingly, disentangling persistence and change in neighborhood median income and concentrated income … Continue reading
Expanding the Understanding of Risk Behavior Associated With Homelessness Among Veterans
Military Medicine
Year: 2017
Introduction: To advance large-scale efforts to end veteran homelessness, an understanding of factors that contribute to housing insecurity is necessary. Common risk behaviors (e.g., substance use and risky sexual practices) are associated with lengthier experiences of homelessness among the general homeless … Continue reading
Gender Differences in the Path from Sexual Victimization to HIV Risk Behavior among Homeless Youth
Journal of Child Sex Abuse
Year: 2017
Experiencing sexual victimization (SV) prior to becoming homeless is common among homeless youth and is associated with increased HIV risk behavior. This study examined mediating variables that underlie this association, adding to the understanding of gender differences in these paths. … Continue reading
Assessing the Faith-Based Response to Homelessness in America: Findings from Eleven Cities
Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion
Year: 2017
This report was undertaken to provide an initial, credible estimate of the impact, socially and economically, of faith-based organizations (FBOs) in eleven cities across the country in responding to homelessness. The primary findings for the report focus on measuring the … Continue reading
The 2017 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Office of Community Planning and Development
Year: 2017
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) releases the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR) in two parts. Part 1 provides Point-in-Time (PIT) estimates, offering a snapshot of homelessness—both sheltered and unsheltered— on a single night. The one-night … Continue reading
Homelessness and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education: A Trauma‐Informed Approach to Research, Policy, and Practice
ASHE Higher Education Report
Year: 2017
This monograph explores how homelessness intersects most social issues that marginalize individuals and negatively influence postsecondary completion, including poverty, foster care, and LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer/questioning, and others) discrimination. As becomes evident, students experiencing homelessness should be considered … Continue reading
Patterns of Multisystem Service Use and School Dropout Among Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth-Grade Students
The Journal of Early Adolescence
Year: 2017
Youth who receive services from public mental health, child welfare and delinquency, and homeless systems are often exposed to a number of overlapping child, family, school, and community risk factors. Minimal research, however, has focused on the extent to which … Continue reading
Gender Differences in Factors Associated with Unsheltered Status and Increased Risk of Premature Mortality among Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
Womens Health Issues
Year: 2017
Among individuals experiencing homelessness, unsheltered status is associated with poor health and access to care and an increased risk for premature death. Insufficient research has explored gender differences in these outcomes; the objective of this study was to address this … Continue reading